Mobile Catering Trailers – Which Product Should You Sell?

Mobile catering trailers can provide people with a relatively low cost route into the food industry. The vehicles can also offer someone a potentially very fulfilling profession that is full of open roads and happy, hungry mouths. However, before hitting the road with a food trailer, there are plenty of considerations to make – key among which is “What are you going to sell?” We provide a few here, read on for more information.

Passion

In an ideal world, every mobile catering trailer owner would sell a product that they are personally passionate about. Whether it’s a passion for eating or drinking the product or preparing it. Passion is important because this will help to keep you motivated; however, it’s not the be all and end all when it comes to choosing you product.

Competition

Competition is a key consideration to make when deciding on what to sell from your trailer. If there are a lot of mobile catering trailers located in one spot this can be a good sign – the area could be particularly profitable. However, you may want to consider your options carefully before selling a product that is already catered for by a catering trailer in the vicinity.

Customers

A group of seasoned culinary connoisseurs enjoying a day out at an international seafood festival may wait be quite happy to wait as the lobster thermidor they have ordered is cooked from scratch inside a mobile catering trailer. A bunch of ravenous revellers in the midst of a raging music festival, however, may not be inclined to show such patience. This is to say, it’s important to take customers’ requirements into consideration before making a choice on a product.

Logistics

When deciding on a product to sell from a mobile catering trailer, there are plenty of logistical considerations to make, including

Where will you get your product from?

How quickly can you prepare it?

How easy it is to store the product?

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